Sentences with phrase «in edwardian»

I lived in an Edwardian building in San Francisco for many years.

In this Edwardian home, the 10 - foot - high Christmas tree features a collection of unique holiday decorations.

Its design is based on something you might see in an Edwardian manor or country home like the one on Downton Abbey.»

In this Edwardian kitchen, the walnut island oozes warmth and is balanced beautifully by shades of warm grey then lifted with a punch of citrus bright in the bar chairs.

When I am told by «believers», of these predictions made from computer models, I ask them to imagine themselves in Edwardian England on a lovely summers day in May 1914 and please outline history to the year 2000.

A major new scholarly research project about the Camden Town Group of painters in Edwardian Britain was launched today on Tate's website.

Yet his success as a portraitist in Edwardian Britain has often obscured his modern daring.

Durack House is an elegant bed and breakfast in an Edwardian home situated in the quiet leafy suburb of Mt Lawley.

The eleven guestrooms provide comfortable amenities combined with styling reminiscent of the 1909 home in the Edwardian - style.

Built in the Edwardian style of the early 1900s, the award - winning, 21 - room guesthouse is spotless, bright and cheery.

There are three «Deluxe» suites per sleeping car, furnished in Edwardian style with double or twin beds and a lounge area, and five «Pullman» compartments per car with upper and lower berths or double beds.

The Piries is in an Edwardian townhouse complex.

Dinard, Breaks France Dinard was a renowned spot with the British in Edwardian times while parking itself atop a rock - strewn cliff above the Rance opposite St. Malo.

Dinard was a renowned spot with the British in Edwardian times while parking itself atop a rock - strewn cliff above the Rance opposite St. Malo.

The bathroom is tiled in an Edwardian / Federation style with a separate large shower recess and a step up two person spa bath.

Elegant all - suite hotel housed in Edwardian style townhouse - Set in the heart of Mayfair, 1 block from Hyde Park and Bond Street.

Hotel set in Edwardian Terrace dating from 1880; catering to business & leisure travelers; multilingual staff; near Oxford St....

Built in the Edwardian period (circa 1900) as a large family home, Ardara House offers the grace and homeliness of a bygone era.

You can get lost for hours in this Edwardian shop with its oak shelves — an experience you'll never find on Amazon.

No less a light than Shirley MacLaine joins the cast (which is ironic as she actually lived in Edwardian England).

Theo's father runs a museum of antiquities in Edwardian London (early 1900s, 1906 to be exact), while her American mother gallivants around Egypt uncovering new treasures for the museum in the Valley of the Kings and elsewhere.

Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth.

Sounds like something out of a novel, but this is the true story of one of the most famous court cases in the Edwardian era in England.

This time, the children of three neighboring families, who grew up in an Edwardian idyll, face love and loss as World War I rages.

By Mike Blakeman / Driving test in a 1913 Renault How 18 year old — Jackie Tanner passed her test in an Edwardian Renault / Visit to a restoration specialist — Peter Wallage went to see hoe it's done in the work - shops of a firm for whom only the best is good enough

Six - wheeled Austin Seven — Paul Shinton on the background to this conversation / Norwich Union RAC Rally — We report on an event that drew / Flat racing and hill climbing — Tom Threfall on the VSCC events at Curborough and Wiscombe Park / History of McKenzie cars — Part two of the article by Ian McKenzie / The story of a London Garage — Fred Hislop recalls his memories of working at Delaney and Sons / Ramble in an Edwardian Rover — The Editor drives a 1912 model on this month's «excursion» / The Anderson specials — Brian Demaus tells the story of the pre-war Humber - based specials / Restoration of the Charabus — Mike Sutcliffe's saga of the rebuild of this dual purpose vehicle / Sandwell Parade and Manchester - Blackpool run — We report on two popular events — one in the Midlands the other in the North.

Yet far fewer people know the intensely dramatic story of RMS TITANIC's beginnings in Edwardian Belfast.

It must've been the fashion in Edwardian England.

Dapper in his Edwardian attire of blue jacket and brown slippers, Peter risked life and limb by purloining the produce from Mr. McGregor's garden patch.

Perhaps the pinnacle of their collaboration is Howards End, their 1992 film based on the E. M. Forster novel about class and inheritance set in Edwardian England.

Now regarded as a landmark in gay cinema, Ivory's adaptation of E.M. Forster's posthumously published novel is about two Cambridge students (James Wilby, Hugh Grant) who fall in love in Edwardian England.

After creating a number of films in Edwardian dress, producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory knew how to be more than merely faithful to the look of those times — they knew how to make that world seem genuinely inhabited.

The pinnacle of the decades - long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster's cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England.

In Howards End, Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel, one of two sisters living together with their hypochondriac younger brother in Edwardian London.

In this case, Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) play American detectives who cross wits with Dr. Henry Jekyll (Boris Karloff) in Edwardian - era London when they visit to compare techniques with their British counterparts.

Overall, this ensemble reminds me very strongly of some outfits which actress Jane Wyman wore in the Edwardian movie Pollyanna.

1910s dresses have a high waist, and the skirts are much narrower than in the Edwardian era.

It first became popular in the Edwardian era, but you will find it being used today as well.

As we have mentioned before, ankles are the height of chic, maybe even the significant silhouette of our age (think of how the neck was defined in the Edwardian era) and designers have made no signs of moving away from this fave just yet.

As the West End morphed from a residential to commercial district in Edwardian times, its congregation died off.

Joan Marie - Stephensonson, an expert in Edwardian jewelry, is here to explain why the «ample posterior» of that fullback your team just took is a reason to be amped.

Not exact matches

The national ethic became identified with the interest of the middle class promoting it; Edwardian artists and intellectuals delighted endlessly in exposing the powerlessness of conventional Victorian virtues; and even the phrase «Victorian virtues» became a synonym for hypocrisy.

So here is my catalogue of suggestions for reading on a very long trip — maybe a convalescent's journey down to the seaside to take the purging air, or some other trip suitably Edwardian in nature and extent.

Tylor and Frazer practiced Victorian - and Edwardian - era armchair anthropologizing, reading and synthesizing from the safe insularity of their offices in England the reports of other travelers abroad.

In Whitehead's «Autobiographical Remarks,» and in Russell's Portraits from Memory5 each, with Edwardian grace and dignity, comments on the attitude of affectionate respect for the other, on the growth of that respect to friendship and collaboration on the monumental Principia Mathematica, 6 and on the subsequent dissolution of the collaboration and cooling of the friendshiIn Whitehead's «Autobiographical Remarks,» and in Russell's Portraits from Memory5 each, with Edwardian grace and dignity, comments on the attitude of affectionate respect for the other, on the growth of that respect to friendship and collaboration on the monumental Principia Mathematica, 6 and on the subsequent dissolution of the collaboration and cooling of the friendshiin Russell's Portraits from Memory5 each, with Edwardian grace and dignity, comments on the attitude of affectionate respect for the other, on the growth of that respect to friendship and collaboration on the monumental Principia Mathematica, 6 and on the subsequent dissolution of the collaboration and cooling of the friendship.

On a kitchen shelf at home, there was a small box adorned with the Royal Warrant of the Queen of England and some Edwardian - sounding patter in small print, attesting to the «curious crystals of unusual purity» contained within.

Definitely sitting down in ones Edwardian mahogany armchair with the gin and tonic with the campari chaser, with the purists coat of arms hanging proudly above the T.V is the way to go Raddy.

Nick Clegg even proposed an increase in the current miserly two weeks of paternity leave, and described our current system as Edwardian.

Victorian and Edwardian baby boy names that were once popular and in the top 100 and are now rare and not even in the top 1000 names in the USA.

Macmillan left office a figure of fun, an Edwardian music hall joke, and yet in his old age had Margaret Thatcher literally sitting at his feet.